Hot Toys Announce Batman Returns License

[snoop101]

 

[DiFabio]

 

[snoop101]

 

[Mike86]

I can't wait!

When I think of Batman as a character, I think of the awesome 60's tv show. It's dark serious tone was really incredible, just how Batman should be. By far the best episode.........

Spoiler

Pick up a copy of Detective Comics or Batman from the 60s. The way the comics were written back then the show was actually pretty spot on. I love the dark and serious tone of Batman as much as the next guy but I can also appreciate the Adam West/Burt Ward version of Batman for what it is and it's place in the character's history.

 

[spindrift]

Just realized Batman Forever Riddler and Two Face just as ludicrous and campy as 66 Batman villians......

 

[batfan08]

Assuming West can conjure up a can of "Your Fugly Not-Girlfriend is Dead" spray that will at least buy him 8 years to plan his next move....

I can't believe nobody's mentioned this yet. I lold.

 

[snoop101]

 

[batfan08]

Thanks a lot, snoop. That just made me resent the fact that The Last Stand isn't on Blu yet even more. Seriously, that movie is rife with gif material, but it makes me sad that no one can exploit that fact just yet.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Snoop is a Batman hipsta.


"Only lika da srs Nolend stuff"





Adam West Batman would kick Bale Batman's ***.

So many of these on this board

 

[snoop101]

So many of these on this board

Why don't you go back to looking at pics of Andrew Garfields sack.

 

[snoop101]

Pick up a copy of Detective Comics or Batman from the 60s. The way the comics were written back then the show was actually pretty spot on. I love the dark and serious tone of Batman as much as the next guy but I can also appreciate the Adam West/Burt Ward version of Batman for what it is and it's place in the character's history.

A joke?

 

[batfan08]

You really are a pretentious sort, aren't you? Batman is greater than all of us. He'll outlive you, and he'll outlive me, and there will be some interpretations that you don't agree with, but, as I said earlier, that doesn't make them any less valid. Your opinion =/= fact; deal with it.

 

[RIDDICK]

I'd sell DX11 and DX12 for a figure of this

 

[Khev]

I'd sell DX11 and DX12 for a figure of this

Mr. Freeze does have the dubious honor of being the only villain Arnold played other than the Terminator.

 

[Mike86]

A joke?

It's a different interpretation from a different era. Just because it's not something you like doesn't make it a joke. I love the Nolan movies as much as anyone and would go as far as saying they are my favorite film adaptations of the character, but it sort of irritates me when people just throw other interpretations out the window just because they don't understand it's context to the history of the character.

Realistically the Adam West/Burt Ward Batman show and movie are probably the truest interpretations of the comics. That show basically personifies Batman in the Silver Age. Nolan took a lot of inspiration from the comics too but even he changed quite a bit. Burton and Schumacher as much as I enjoy elements of their films really don't feel like true Batman to me at all. Particularly the Tim Burton films, they're cool stylized movies but that factor aside they don't feel like Batman at all really to me. They feel like Tim Burton movies who happen to use Batman characters (especially Batman Returns, damn how I hate that film). Really though it isn't all that surprising considering Burton basically admitted that he had never read a comic before.

 

[Frank]

One thing is certain, Adam West has snagged more tail than a Sumo at Red Lobster.

 

[Khev]

Burt Ward doesn't count.

 

[DiFabio]

Burton and Schumacher as much as I enjoy elements of their films really don't feel like true Batman to me at all.

Why?



Burton


https://gothamalleys.blogspot.com/2011/08/comic-book-references-in-movies-part-i.html?m=1



Schumacher


https://gothamalleys.blogspot.com/2011/08/comic-book-references-in-movies-part.html?m=1

 

[Mike86]

Why?



Burton


https://gothamalleys.blogspot.com/2011/08/comic-book-references-in-movies-part-i.html?m=1



Schumacher


https://gothamalleys.blogspot.com/2011/08/comic-book-references-in-movies-part.html?m=1

Don't get me wrong I know that not everything from their films are bad. I know that there is some inspiration that comes from comics in their films. I stated what I felt wrong I guess, they just didn't handle the character the way I would have liked. Particularly Tim Burton pretty much completely lost me with Batman Returns. The main thing I like from that movie is that it had some cool style factors.

My big gripes with Batman (1989) are the fact he made Joker the murderer of Thomas and Martha Wayne. I also wasn't a huge fan of Joker being killed off at the end and some characters were handled rather poorly. Commissioner Gordon for instance felt like a total buffoon (really he did for the most part in all the Burton/Schumacher films). Also Harvey Dent, now granted I know he has said that he would have used him in a sequel later but he felt like a throw away character in the movie to me. Aside from that and some things that age the film a bit I do like Batman (1989) it just isn't my favorite interpretation of the character.

Schumacher again took a lot of inspirations from the comics and I get what he was going for but he just took it too far. Particularly with Batman & Robin. One of the problems with his movies to me is they felt like they were more about selling toys (he basically admitted that about Batman & Robin).

 

[Frank]

Swingin'!

Bale's stepmom was Gloria Steinem. West wins.